UPCATET

No, it's mandatory to have a domicile of UP to get a normal seat in UPCATET exam. Authorities ask for the UP domicile during counseling process.  Applicants who want to apply UPCATET online form must fulfil both age wise as well as educational eligibility criteria. 

The Eligibility criteria for UPCATET is mentioned below:

• Indian citizenship.
• Candidate must pass 12th standard exam from a recognised board. 
• Uttar Pradesh domicile status.

There are various courses which can be offered after qualifying UPCATET exam. 

UG Courses

• BSc (Hons) Agriculture
• BSc (Hons) Horticulture
• BSc (Hons) Forestry
• BSc (Hons) Home Science
• BVSc&AH
• BFSc
• BTech Biotechnology
• BTech Agriculture Engineering
• BTech Dairy Technology
• BTech Computer Science
• BTech Mechanical Engineering
• BTech Electronics & Communication Engineering

PG Courses

• MSc Agriculture
• MSc Home Science
• MSc Veterinary Science
• MSc Horticulture
• MVSc
• MTech Agricultural Engineering
• MTech Mechanical Engineering
• MTech/ MSc Biotechnology
• MBA Agribusiness

Applicants who will qualify the exam will be able to take admission in the above mentioned courses. 

The UPCATET exam is compratively easy in comparison to JEE Main, BITSAT etc. exam. Applicants who have secured atleast 60 % marks in their academic exam are more likely to qualify the exam. Since it is state owned examination and number of users are also less in comparison to other competitve exam. 

Applicants just need to complete the syllabus within time and practise more and more to qualify the exam with good marks. 

There are four participating universities offering admissions on the basis of UPCATET results which are as follows:

• Banda University of Agriculture & Technology
• Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology
• Chandra Shekhar Azad University
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology.

Applicants who want to participate and take admission in these universities must appear UPCATET exam and pass the exam with good marks. 

The counselling process of the UPCATET exam generally takes 20 to 25 days to complete. The schedule of UPCATET 2024 counselling will be released along with the release of the official notification in online mode in pdf file. 

Last year the counselling process was started on June 20th and completed by July 14th, 2023. There were two counselling for UG and PG courses while there was one counselling for PhD courses. 

Candidates can follow the below mentioned steps for counselling

Step 1: Online UPCATET counselling registration (fees submission) and documents upload.

Step 2: Online choice filling and Locking.

Step 3: Seat allocation and Security fee deposit.

Step 4: Report at respective universities.

By following these steps the admission process of a candidate will be completed after declaratio of UPCATET results.

No, there will be seperate counselling schedule is to be released for UG, PG & PhD courses by exam conducting authorities in online mode after declaration of the results. The authorities will release seperate counselling schedule for all the courses in online mode only. 

Since the counselling will be held in online mode only hence applicants need to prepare the important documents ready while appearing in the counselling. 

The application form of UPCATET is a form through which candidates can appear in the UPCATET exam for their desired category (UG, PG & PhD) course. After filling the form candidates need to pay application fees. Students need to fill the form by visiting official website.

Only those candidates will be issued admit card, answer key & result who fill the application form correctly and upload the image for photo & signature.